Update drive firmware

exodist · 10-03-2005, 09:28 AM

I have 2 dvd+/-rw drives, a pioneer and an asus. I need to update the firmware on both of them. I do not have windows, I do not own or operate it. The firmware updaters are windows only, wine runs them but obviously does not find the drives.

Is there anyway to update the firmware without taking the drives to a friend w/ windows?

Half_Elf · 10-04-2005, 07:12 AM

Well, unless you are uber lucky with vmware and such emulation tools... I guess no, usually these apps are really badly made and you don't want them to fail while updating. I wouldn't even try to do it in an emulated environnement in case something goes wrong with the update (half a firmware doesn't work that well).

imitheos · 10-04-2005, 08:26 AM

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Originally posted by exodist
I have 2 dvd+/-rw drives, a pioneer and an asus. I need to update the firmware on both of them. I do not have windows, I do not own or operate it. The firmware updaters are windows only, wine runs them but obviously does not find the drives.

Is there anyway to update the firmware without taking the drives to a friend w/ windows?

It depends on the chipset used by those drives.
Nearly all the drives use windows flashers now (stupid thing. Perhaps we Not_Windows (Linux/BSD/Solaris/etc) users don't exist),
but you can extract the .bin image from the .exe . Some chipsets can be flashed using a real mode DOS bootdisk which can be
made in a few minutes.

Maybe i am forgetting a way, but i think this is the only way (or take the drive to a windows box).